1. Flail chest: Monitor pulse oximetry and blood gases, intubate and ventilate if there is hypoxia or respiratory distress. Consider early intubation in elderly or severe multitrauma patients. 2. Open, sucking/blowing wound in the chest wall: Do not suture or pack before thoracostomy tube insertion. Danger of tension pneumothorax! A Square gauze taped on only 3 sides can be applied while preparing for chest tube insertion. 3. Tension pneumothorax: Initial decompression with needle insertion through the
Platelets should be transfused at a rate of 10 milliliters per minute for approximately 30 minutes, explains the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Health System.
Platelets have an average life of 15 days and a count of 1,50,000 to 4,00,000 per cubic millilitre. and white cells... White cells too are produced in bone marrow and also in our liver and spleen. The count on an average is 6,000 to 8,000 per cubic millilitre and the life is only 6 to 7 hours!